Video from the scene at South White and Church Streets:
POUGHKEEPSIE – A possible “Wild West” style shootout in Poughkeepsie Tuesday afternoon critically injured one male teenager while his opponent also sustained a wound that required a trip to the hospital. The incident began minutes before 3 p.m. in the vicinity of the corner store at Fox Terrace and South White Street where Poughkeepsie High School students gather after the 2:40 p.m. dismissal.
(The original Mid-Hudson News report, filed from the scene as the victim was rushed to the hospital, can be found here.)
A teenage girl ran to a Poughkeepsie police officer assigned to the high school to monitor the occasional unruly dismissal and reported that someone had been shot, and provided the location.
The officers at the school raced to the intersection of South White and Church Streets where they located a teenage boy on the sidewalk of Church Street (eastbound Route 44/55) with a life-threatening gunshot wound to his neck. He was immediately triaged by city cops and firefighters before being transported by ambulance to an area hospital for treatment.
As several uniformed officers and detectives gathered at the scene, evidence was discovered in the parking lot of the corner store that indicated the shooting had begun in the parking lot of the store.
A blood trail led to the victim, who witnesses identified as “Jay Jay,” who had been found on the sidewalk of Church Street. Additional witnesses were yelling that the shooter, another teenage boy who does not attend Poughkeepsie High School, had run from the scene heading west on Church Street.
While gathering evidence, police were notified that a teenage boy had arrived at another Poughkeepsie hospital in a personal vehicle, with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his neck. A police official told Mid-Hudson News that both shooting victims are known to the police.
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